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July 16, 2017 12:34 PM

Pak JIT recommends reopening 15 cases against Nawaz Sharif

In Pakistan, the joint investigation team looking into the Panama Papers case has recommended reopening 15 cases against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Of these 15 cases, three were registered during the 1994 and 2011 tenures of the PPP and 12 were prepared during the Musharraf regime. <br/><...

July 16, 2017 12:10 PM

Thousands march in Hong Kong to remember Liu Xiaobo

In Hong Kong, thousands of people have taken to the streets holding candles as they marched in memory of pro-democracy Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Liu's ashes were buried at sea yesterday, depriving supporters of a place to pay tribute. Liu died on Thursday from cancer while in China's c...

July 16, 2017 8:51 AM

14 killed, 30 injured in Ecuador bus crash

In Ecuador, at least 14 people were killed and 30 others injured, one of them seriously, when a bus drove off the highway in the capital Quito, flipped and caught fire. Authorities said the accident took place yesterday on the highway between the capital Quito and Andean city of La Mana.National Tra...

July 16, 2017 8:21 AM

Eight dead in Senegal football stadium stampede

In Senegal, at least 8 people were killed and 49 seriously injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium. It happened at Demba Diop stadium in the capital, Dakar, at the end of the League Cup final between Stade de Mbour and Union Sportive Ouakam. Several media outlets report that fighting st...

July 16, 2017 8:09 AM

US condemns terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Old City

The United States has strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Old City in which two Israeli police officers were killed. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the US strongly condemns the terror attack and extends its prayers and sympathies to the families of the vict...

July 16, 2017 8:04 AM

Poland's Parliament approves judiciary bill

Poland's Parliament has approved a bill to give MPs and the justice minister the power to appoint judges without consulting judicial circles. <br/><br/>Opposition parties and human rights groups say this would erode the independence of the judiciary. The governing Law and Justice pa...

July 16, 2017 8:04 AM

Turkey marks first anniversary of failed coup

Turkey is holding a series of events today to mark the first anniversary of a failed coup in which at least 260 people died and 2,196 were wounded. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will unveil a memorial on an Istanbul bridge that became a landmark of resistance and will later address parliament.<b...

July 16, 2017 7:15 AM

Eight dead in Senegal football stadium stampede

In Senegal, at least 8 people were killed and 49 seriously injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium. It happened at Demba Diop stadium in the capital, Dakar, at the end of the League Cup final between Stade de Mbour and Union Sportive Ouakam. Several media outlets report that fighting st...

July 16, 2017 5:47 AM

US condemns terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Old City

The United States has strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Old City in which two Israeli police officers were killed. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the US strongly condemns the terror attack and extends its prayers and sympathies to the families of the vict...

July 16, 2017 5:46 AM

Iranian- born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani dies

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian- born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died of cancer in a US hospital. She was 40. Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University in California won the Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Mathematics in 2014.&lt...

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